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Newsby StaffJanuary 15, 2015

Prison bus crash kills 2 guards, 8 inmates

Officials say the bus hit an icy patch Wednesday morning on an Interstate 20 overpass, slid down an embankment and collided with a passing freight train. The National Transportation Safety Board has sent a team to investigate the accident.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 8, 2015

New York bus crash injures 21

Police say that shortly before 4 p.m. the driver of a Nissan Altima was backing out of a parking lot near an intersection when it was struck by the driver of a BMW sedan heading southbound on Utica. The sedan was thrust into the path of a northbound MTA bus and struck the driver's side.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 5, 2015

Community celebrates life of Duke U. driver

Vincent Orlando Davis, who had worked as a driver for Duke University Transit for about the past two years, was killed Dec. 22 in a crash near Duke’s campus, when an 18-year-old man hit a Duke passenger van that Davis was driving.

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Newsby StaffDecember 31, 2014

Seattle driver will not face criminal charges in fatal crash

Prosecutors said there is insufficient evidence to file vehicular-homicide charges against Aleksandr Rukhlin, who drove a Sound Transit bus through a red light and collided with a Ford Escape, killing two people and injuring their son.

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Newsby StaffDecember 30, 2014

San Antonio driver celebrates 48 years accident free

Jesse Quintero has traveled approximately 3.9-million miles over his 48-year career and is one of only a handful of drivers nationwide to drive three million miles without an accident. He is expected to surpass the four million mile mark by the end of 2015.

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Newsby StaffDecember 29, 2014

5 injured when Toronto bus, streetcar crash head-on

Police say the two vehicles collided around 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the city’s east end. They say the streetcar has been derailed and the area immediately closed to traffic.

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Newsby StaffNovember 20, 2014

NTSB releases Metro-North special investigation report

The report examines several common safety management problems present in all the accidents. Last month the NTSB released accident briefs identifying the probable causes of these accidents.

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Newsby StaffNovember 7, 2014

N.Y. motorcoach accident injures 26

The accident occurred around 2:30 a.m. on the southbound side of I-81. Pine Hill is cooperating with the police investigation into the crash. The company is also focused on helping the passengers involved and their families

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Newsby StaffOctober 23, 2014

Time Square bus driver goes from suspect to hero

An investigation found that a mechanical failure caused the bus to lurch forward, at which time the driver was able to steer the bus away from a crowded sidewalk, thereby averting serious injury to those on the sidewalk.

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Newsby StaffOctober 21, 2014

Detroit SMART driver falls asleep at wheel

The bus went over the center of the road and hit an eastbound vehicle. The bus then hit the rear of a westbound vehicle that then hit another eastbound vehicle, and hit four more vehicles before coming to a rest at a guardrail, police said.

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